Cities on Celluloid

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Cinema and cities both offer built environments of seductive experiential richness. There is also a given historical connection between them as products of the same industrial and social transformations. The 21st century has seen the rise of megacities, migrant fragmented communities and global mediascapes. Can existing theoretical frameworks contain new formations from across the globe? What remains of the twentieth century's ideas of the city and its corresponding cinematic visions in films in the 21st century? How does the modern European and North American city correspond to the new megacities of Latin America, Africa and Asia?